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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (25 Jun 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that enrolments at the school to which he refers have declined by 31% over the last 5 years to the level of four mainstream class teachers. The Deputy will be aware that my Department's over-riding objective is to ensure that every child has access to a physical school place and that our school system is in a position to cope with increasing pupil numbers. To...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Administration (25 Jun 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: To satisfy the terms and conditions of the student grant scheme in relation to progression, a student must be moving from year to year within a course having successfully completed the previous year or be transferring from one course to another where the award for the subsequent course is of a higher level than the previous course. The objective of this policy is to help as many students as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Issues (25 Jun 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I appointed the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board with effect from 25th March 2013. The Board will oversee the use of the cash contributions of up to €110 million, pledged by the religious congregations, to support the needs of some 15,000 survivors of institutional child abuse. Supports across a range of services, including mental health services, health and personal...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (25 Jun 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Officials in my Department have confirmed with Student Universal Support Ireland that the student referred to by the Deputy has had her application reviewed and a grant award letter issued on 19th June 2013.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: EU Funding (25 Jun 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: Under the current Multiannual Financial Framework of the EU, Ireland receives some €10m annually from the Lifelong Learning Programme, which is distributed through the National Agencies, Léargas and the Higher Education Authority. Applications for grants under the Lifelong Learning Programme are invited annually by the agencies by public advertisement. The Lifelong Learning...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Minor Works Scheme Suspension (25 Jun 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: When the Minor Works Grant last issued in November 2011 for the school year 2011/2012, I stated that given the need to focus on meeting the demand for additional school places, it was unlikely that funding would be available for the Minor Works Grant in the coming years. This is borne out by the fact that in 2012, 85% of the capital expenditure in the school sector was in respect of large...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (25 Jun 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The school referred to by the Deputy should submit an application under my Departments Emergency Works scheme for an appropriate ventilated facility for consideration.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (25 Jun 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: As the Deputy will be aware the student contribution will increase to €2,500 for the next academic year and is set to increase by €250 each year until the 2015/16 academic year when the contribution will stand at €3,000. The contribution is paid by the Exchequer in respect of students who qualify under my Department's student grant scheme. The Government is aware of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Appeals (25 Jun 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The case of the applicant referred to by the Deputy was considered by the Student Grants Appeals Board on the 9th April 2013. A copy of their determination was issued to the Appeals Officer in Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI). The determination requested that SUSI should take into account a change in circumstance in relation to reckonable income. I understand Officials in SUSI have...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ministerial Transport (25 Jun 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The cost of ministerial transport in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013 is €101,974, €158,723, €198,184 and €108,128 respectively. These figures include the salary of the civilian drivers for the Minister and Minister of State, the subsistence costs incurred by the drivers and the amount of travel and subsistence paid to the Minister and the Minister of State....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (25 Jun 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 284 and 285 together. My Department has not incurred any costs in connection with newspaper supplements in the years mentioned by the Deputy. The attached tabular statement gives details of two events that my Department paid for photography which amounted to €682. The following is a tabular statement of photography costs incurred at my Department since...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (25 Jun 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that funding was recently approved for universal access works at Templemichael College and correspondence in this regard has issued to County Longford Vocational Education Committee.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (25 Jun 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: My Department received an application under the emergency works scheme from the school referred to by the Deputy for upgrade works to existing science rooms. As the scope of the works requested is outside the terms of the emergency works scheme it cannot be considered for funding. County Longford Vocational Education Committee have been informed of this decision.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Provision (25 Jun 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that the public second level boys' and co-educational schools in the Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown area are as follows: Coláiste Eóin, Stillorgan Oatland's College, Mount Merrion Clonkeen College, Blackrock St Benildus College, Stillorgan St Laurence's College, Loughlinstown De la Salle College, Churchtown Newpark Comprehensive School, Blackrock Ballinteer...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (25 Jun 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is responsible, through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs), for processing applications from schools for special educational needs supports, including Special Needs Assistant (SNA) support. The NCSE operates within my Department's established criteria for the allocation of such...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Administration (25 Jun 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: I can inform the Deputy that all primary and post primary schools have access to psychological assessments either directly through the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS), or through the Scheme for Commissioning Psychological Assessments (SCPA), full details of which are on the Department's website. Where a NEPS psychologist is not assigned to a school, authorities therein may...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing Appeals Mechanism (25 Jun 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The core function of the redeployment arrangements is to facilitate the redeployment of all surplus permanent teachers to other schools that have vacancies. The redeployment of all surplus permanent teachers is key to the Department's ability to manage within its payroll budget and ceiling on teacher numbers. Thereafter, schools are required under the panel arrangements to fill permanent...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (25 Jun 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The Government has protected frontline services in schools to the greatest extent possible in this year's budget and there will no reduction in teacher numbers in primary schools for the 2013/14 school year as a result of the budget. The DEIS scheme for disadvantaged schools is also fully protected with no overall changes to staffing levels or funding as a result of the budget. The criteria...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Grants (25 Jun 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The purpose of the Remote Area Boarding Grant is to give pupils who are educationally disadvantaged because of their remoteness from schools an opportunity to attend school on the same basis as other pupils not so disadvantaged. Pupils resident on off-shore islands that do not have a school providing suitable free second-level education may also qualify for assistance under the scheme. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (25 Jun 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: The closing date for applications to Student Universal Support Ireland for the academic year 2013/14 is a month earlier than the previous year. The decision was taken in consultation with SUSI and was done in order to facilitate earlier applications and decision on grant applications.